International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory (Second Series) – serie
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Rights
Av Robin West
Inbunden, 2001
6951 kr
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Rights brings together the most influential essays of the last thirty years critiquing and defending the liberal rights tradition. Modern 'rights critics' have focused on the perceived conflict between liberal rights and progressive or egalitarian political objectives, the preference of liberal …
Privacy
Av Eric Barendt
Inbunden, 2001
3879 kr
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Privacy is a complex and controversial right. The essays in this book address fundamental issues about its value and how best it may be defined. Some of them examine its importance and scope in the context of the information society in which both government and business acquire ever more knowledge …
Law and Anthropology
Av Martha Mundy
Inbunden, 2002
6951 kr
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This volume provides an introduction to the major themes and theoretical perspectives of contemporary work in Law and Anthropology. It reflects both important recent ethnography of law and the state, and the dialogue of jurists and anthropologists concerning legal institutions in the present era of …
Gender and Justice
Inbunden, 2002
3879 kr
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The leading articles on gender and justice within Anglo-American legal theory are assembled in this volume. The essays are drawn primarily from the writings of lawyers working in the common law tradition and they mainly examine the justice of legal institutions. Due to the close kinship between …
Law and Economics
Inbunden, 2001
2811 kr
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Law and economics is an influential field of legal theory in the United States. Its practitioners use the methodology of economics for the purpose of analyzing a diverse assortment of legal topics. This volume contains a selection of recent work in law and economics. The first part includes …
Sociological Perspectives on Law, Volumes I and II
Volume I: Classical Foundations Volume II: Contemporary Debates
2001
7882 kr
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What does it mean to adopt a sociological perspective on law? Treating law as an aspect of social life, part of a larger social environment, the aim is to understand the environment and law’s place within it systematically and empirically. The papers in these two volumes reflect the variety of …
Regulation
Av Colin Scott
Inbunden, 2003
1128 kr
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Legal scholarship is concerned with distinctive issues and problems of regulatory governance. This volume draws together writings on regulation which problematize law in regulatory settings and which introduce problems of regulatory law to legal theory. The main themes addressed are: the character …
Law and Democracy
Av Tom Campbell, Adrienne Stone
Inbunden, 2003
3879 kr
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The study of law is a branch of the study of politics. Even those who emphasize the autonomy of law, either sociologically or normatively, must acknowledge that this is a position that requires justification within a broader theory of politics that either explains or justifies this autonomy. …
Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers
Inbunden, 2005
6951 kr
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The rule of law is frequently invoked in political debate, yet rarely defined with any precision. Some employ it as a synonym for democracy, others for the subordination of the legislature to a written constitution and its judicial guardians. It has been seen as obedience to the duly-recognised …
Constitutionalism and Democracy
Inbunden, 2006
6951 kr
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Constitutionalism and democracy have been interpreted as both intimately related and intrinsically opposed. On the one hand constitutions are said to set out the rules of the democratic game, on the other as constraining the power of the demos and their representatives to rule themselves - …
International Law, Volumes I and II
Av Patrick Capps, Malcolm Evans
2009
9323 kr
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Over the last 300 years public international law has developed from a set of principles, ultimately grounded in natural law, into an extremely complex web of norms, supporting and sustained by an array of international institutions which, in combination, present a system for the realisation of …
Sociological Perspectives on Law
Volume I: Classical Foundations
Inbunden, 2026
3272 kr
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What does it mean to adopt a sociological perspective on law? Treating law as an aspect of social life, part of a larger social environment, the aim is to understand the environment and law’s place within it systematically and empirically. The papers in these two volumes reflect the variety of …
Legal Positivism
Inbunden, 1999
2811 kr
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Despite persistent criticism from a variety of different perspectives including natural law, legal realism and socio-legal studies, legal positivism remains as an enduring theory of law. The essays contained in this volume represent the most balanced responses toward legal positivism and although …
Chinese Law and Legal Theory
Av Perry Keller
Inbunden, 2001
4213 kr
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China's Confucian-based imperial legal system developed and flourished for more than 3000 years. Its disintegration, following the collapse of the last dynasty in 1911, ushered in a new century of legal experimentation, development and intermittent disorder. No single book could possibly offer a …
Law and Language
Inbunden, 2000
1956 kr
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The essays in this volume reflect several important and widely-discussed issues in legal theory. One set of issues may be characterized as legal hermeneutics, a consideration of the practices governing the retrieval and determination of meaning from legal texts and in legal contexts. Related issues …
Law and Morality
Av Brian Bix, KennethEinar Himma
Inbunden, 2005
2739 kr
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This volume collects many of the key essays exploring the possible relationships between the concepts of law and morality, a central concern of contemporary philosophizing about law. It is organized around five conceptual issues: classical natural law theory; legal positivism's separability thesis; …
